• Jordan M Brown

    Record-Breaking Thread

    Begin breaking records here.

    • Clever ... 

      Top Secret

    • is it just me, or does the following sound like I, Robot was basically a ripoff by rehashing a previous film to a book adptation? (gonna have to click the spoiler button thingy, which will tell you what I was linking)


      I happened to have watched the latter part of Virtuosity and thought it was too familiar. I actually could list the parallels if anyone wants to see it.

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      • Isn't "I, Robot" based for the most part on the Isaac Asimov short story?


        The could draw from the same source material.

      • I did the cursory search on it already. that's why I said: "basically a ripoff by rehashing a previous film to a book adptation"

        also, further looking into the IMDB page, it says it used the same story source from the TV adaptation that was in the Outer Limits series. I, Robot would be based on the story, but they took up some artistic license to make some slight changes, making it look like it was a rewrite of Virtuosity.

        a few things in my list thus far (people can add to it if I'm missing anything):

        • the first, obvious one in the basic plot, was the reference I linked. Denzel Washington would have been slated for the part of Spooner in I, Robot, since he had already taken the role of a cop that had lost his left arm, and was tasked with chasing a robot that strayed (this was the only most direct reference I could find in IMDB, so I'm not sure if people didn't already start to see the similarities, or they haven't seen/forgotten about Virtuosity).
        • our hero cop kinda goes rogue during pursuit.
        • the female partner to the cop, are doctors in some field of psychology.
        • by the end of the films, both fight scenes involve a glass building, which of course eventually means quite a bit of glass gets in the way.
        • they both end up getting to the "brains" of the operation that was causing havoc.
        • the inventors of both SID 6.7 and Sonny were apparently killed off at some point.


        the list could go on.

        [speaking to Philly] there's no direct claim of inspiration or a remake between either film as far as I've seen. so, I'm not sure anyone has ever compared them. I, Robot would have been based on the Asimov stories, but if you put that on Virtuosity instead, the basic plot elements that are there, would have been very little difference to what the I, Robot film looks like now.

        I just thought that it was weird. I didn't look into whether there was any connection between the films in the production side for any common people that worked on it, which could bring up the possibility of Virtuosity being subconsciously inserted into I, Robot. or maybe they were aware of it, but probably too ashamed to realize what they had done.

    • that has been quite common in hollywood, ever since the start of films many films have been re-made under original or new names, remember " the old tricks, are still the best tricks "

    • Well, after my daughter had her little mishap in the garage trying to back out around the snowblower, my wife "suggested" that I put it away for the year, since clearly it was the snowblower's (and thus, my) fault that it happened.  Between yesterday and overnight last night I have about 6-7 inches of snow in the driveway.  Screw it, I'm not shovelling.  Yell

    • morning

    • Ahh, the British  ...

      The Brits

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    • Good morning all.

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    • Good cold morning.  21 this morning.

    • Hey.


    • Kovalev packed it in:  http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=418798


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